directions of his predecessor, Leif, lay far to the south. Nor is a long coasting voyage along the shores of Helluland in any way suggested by the text; in fact it is inconsistent with it. In the summer, or still more in the spring, Karlsefni would almost certainly have been greatly impeded by ice off the Labrador coast, but no mention is made of any such feature. We must therefore either abandon the figure, two days, altogether, which—having regard to its repetition later on—is possibly the right course, or we must substitute some plausible alternative. Reeves suggests ‘sjau’ (seven) for ‘tvau’ (two), but in the manuscripts numbers seem to be usually given in figures. A possible amendment would be five (=u=), as, if the light stroke connecting the verticals in writing this figure had become erased by time, =íí= and =u= would be almost identical in Icelandic manuscript. This would be equivalent to 750 miles at average speeds, and would bring land more nearly to the south of the starting-point well within range.[101] It is, however, safer on the whole to decide that we have no reliable guide to the distance. The question of the situation of Karlsefni’s landfall in Helluland has been already discussed (Chapter VI, p. 230), and we can only adhere to the conclusion there arrived at, viz. that there is a slight balance of probability in favour of Labrador as against Newfoundland, but that both countries would almost certainly have been assumed to be one and the same. Anyone who doubts this probability has only to look at the maps reproduced on p. 364 of vol. 2 of Dr. Nansen’s _In Northern Mists_, where the same confusion is shown to have been made in the case of Corte Real. _Markland and Bjarney._